On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Jorge Arevalo <jorgearevalo@gis4free.org> writes:
>> Many thanks! That was one of my errors. Another one was this:
>
>> char szDataPointer[10];
>> sprintf(szDataPointer, "%p", a_pointer);
>
>> These lines caused a memory error.
>
> That looks all right in itself (unless you're on a 64-bit machine, in
> which case you need a bigger array to hold %p output). However the
> array would only live as long as the function it's in. What were you
> doing with the data afterwards, returning it maybe?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
Thanks for the tip. And about the data pointed by this address, is
copied in a safe place (I hope...) before using it to construct the
data that will be returned. Just now, it's working, but I'll be
careful.
Many thanks again!
Best regards,
Jorge
